9."When your tattoo artist tells you not to get a boyfriend's name on you, you should listen."

"This is actually my third cover up. On the left, if you look, you can see 'Chris' in the feather (upside down). I covered that up with a peacock feather. After a few years I decided to cover that up as well, and am totally in love." – emmar45c02312b

10."As you can see, I have much better taste now."

"The original tattoo got bleached out when I worked at a pool store the summer after high school. The awesome cover-up was done by Tim Strating at Anthem Tattoo in Gainsville, Florida." – kelliw47ce7c9be

11."I was happy I was able to transform my cliché tattoo into something more meaningful to me."

12."The letters of my quote started to spread, so I got a cover-up that I love!"

13."I realised once I saw the initial tattoo finished that the artist had redrawn what I brought in into a bird with a boob head."

"I christened it Titty Bird and lived with it for about a year. It took seven removal sessions and three tattoo sessions to get it covered (with one more to come for touch-ups and shading). So worth it." – lieslh

14."My ex-girlfriend convinced me to get it and it was a horrible mistake."

15."I got this dreadful haunted house and found out afterwards the artist had been using other people’s tattoos and passing them off as his own."

"The original stencil looked so good, but he obviously couldn’t do the actual tattooing work. I wore long sleeves for a good two years before finding an amazing artist that was willing to and capable of covering it up, and I’m still as in love with it now as I was on the day I got it." – evelynhk

19."The original was my first tattoo ever."

"It was based on a painting I had done that was way, way better than what the artist scribbled into my skin. I got it redone a few years later by an artist I had worked with on another tattoo." – oliviap4c4fc2637